Archives for July 2018

Photo (l-r): Generals Omar Bradley, Dwight Eisenhower, and George Patton, Bastogne, Belgium, 1944 You may remember the famous scene from the movie. The Germans have launched Operation Wacht am Rhein, better known as the Battle of the Bulge. Elements of the United States First Army, supposedly in a quiet sector of the front, are pinned down […]

Sewell Avery being taken from his office by National Guardsmen for refusing to settle a strike that endangered delivery of essential goods during World War II At the end of World War II, Montgomery Ward chairman Sewell Avery made a fateful decision. The United States, he was sure, would experience major difficulties moving from a […]